A handy-book of the British museum for every-day readersCassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870 - 426 strán (strany) |
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altar Amenophis Amenophis III Amenra ancient animals antiquities Antoninus Pius artists Assur-bani-pal Assyrian Athenian Athens Babylonian Bacchus bas-reliefs beautiful Blacas British Museum bronze bust carved casts chariot chiefly Chimæra Cloth coins collection colossal colours columns cuneiform decorated deities discovered divinities dynasty Egypt Egyptian embalmed emblem emperor engraved erected Esarhaddon Etruscan excavated exhibited feet female figures fragments frieze goddess gods gold granite Greek hand handsome head hieroglyphic Illustrated inscribed inscriptions ivory Karnak king lions Lycian marble Mausolus monuments mummy Nimroud gallery Nineveh ornamented Osiris painted palace Parthenon period Persian Pharaoh placed portrait priest Ptolemy pyramid queen Rameses Rameses II reign relief represented Roman Rome royal sacred sarcophagus scenes scribe sculpture seated Sennacherib sepulchral side silver slabs specimens Sphinx standing statue statuette stone style subjects supposed tablet temple terra-cotta Thebes Thothmes Tiglath tomb Townley twelfth dynasty vases Venus walls
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Strana 169 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Strana 96 - So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he took all : he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Strana 104 - Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot; unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break, and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses, and become mad or moody. Knowing this, I divide my life between pastime and business.
Strana 68 - Gallus, and numerous friends and soldiers about him, I heard a noise at the first hour of the day, but whether proceeding from the base or from the colossus, or produced on purpose by some of those standing around the base, I cannot confidently assert. For, from the uncertainty of the cause, I am inclined to believe anything rather than that stones disposed in that manner could send forth sound
Strana 233 - Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language ; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
Strana 191 - Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not. The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots...
Strana 146 - Egypt who practise the art of embalming, and make it their proper business. These persons, when a body is brought to them, show the bearers various models of corpses, made in wood, and painted so as to resemble nature. The most perfect is said to be after the manner of him whom I do not think it religious to name in connection with such a matter ; the second sort is inferior to the first, and less costly ; the third is the cheapest of all.